You want an election nightmare? As you know, we elect our president through the electoral college, which has 538 votes for the 50 states; one vote for each representative in the House and one for each Senator. So California, for example, has 55 electoral votes, winner-take-all. You need 270 electoral votes to win.

What if Bush or Kerry fail to reach 270? Then the House votes for President and the Senate for Vice President. In the House, each state delegation gets one vote and Republicans have a decided advantage in the House, so Bush, in this case, becomes President. For Vice President, things get a little iffy.

The Senate races are real close this year. Republicans currently control the body 51-48. If Republicans keep control, Cheney is VP. If Democrats gain control, then John Edwards becomes VP. What if there's a tie? The current Vice President has the tie-breaking vote, meaning Cheney would be voting himself back into office.

Of course, if any of this happens, people will be screaming bloody hell.

A nice way to keep track of this mess is through electoral-vote.com, which keeps track of the map every day until election day.

On a different note, ABC has had a lot of problems in the past few years. Ever since Who Wants to be a Millionaire aired and crashed to the ground, ABC crashed along with it. Along the way, it decided to give quality a try. Yes, it delayed its foray onto the reality bandwagon and it deviated from its family comedy style it built its past success on, but at least they'd be going down with style. And that's how the world was introduced to two geniuses in Aaron Sorkin and J.J. Abrams. Sorkin was an accomplished writer of theatre and film and went to ABC to make the phenomenal show Sports Night. But nobody watched it and ABC was reluctant to give him another show. So Sorkin went to NBC and gave them a big hit in The West Wing. Now, here comes Abrams, with only Felicity under his belt, bringing in the buzz show of three years ago in Alias and introducing us to Jennifer Garner. But nobody watched it. Luckily, enough people watch it for us to enjoy season 4, but it's not the smash hit ABC wanted. But they weren't about to make the same mistake as they did with Sorkin. Here comes this project called Lost, and Abrams signs on. And what do you know? The first episode was great and 18 million people watched it. With a respectable hold on next week's audience, it looks as though ABC finally has a hit on its hands.